This exhibition, which Michelangelo Pistoletto created specifically for the space of this gallery, pursued the theme of “Poetica dura” (Hard poetics) that he began exploring in a show of that name at the beginning of 1985. “Art of squalor, parasitical art of mortification. Surfaces of desolation, obtuse surfaces. A repulsive art that doesn’t represent anything. Fountains of light gray cast metal, idiot depths of a crushed, smeared art, tiring as childbirth,” the artist wrote then, in a vibrant declaration of poetics that accompanied the show. Pistoletto’s recent installation here, which he called